WWW.THELEAVEN.COM | NEWSPAPER OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF KANSAS CITY IN KANSAS | VOL. 30, NO. 14 NOVEMBER 7, 2008 MMeeeett PPaauull:: IInn tthhee eenndd,, nnootthhiinngg ccoouulldd sshhuutt hhiimm uupp ANSAS CITY, Kan. — One time he was nearly beaten K to death. On several other K occasions, he was merely beaten bloody. He endured riots, assas - sination conspiracies, shipwreck, First in bandits, impris - a series onment, aban - by donment, and be - JOE trayal by friends. BOLLIG His opponents harassed him relentlessly, sometimes following him from town to town. He was often cold, hungry, tired, and anxious. Some- times he was sick, and physi - cal disability became his ever- present companion later in life. Road Warrior for God. Iron Man for the Risen Christ. Man of Letters and Man of Action. Apostle to Jews and Gentiles alike. St. Paul was all of these . . . and more. In the end, nothing could shut him up — except the sword.

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LIFE WILL BE VICTORIOUS ‘Shepherds’ program schools priests in management Not enough hours in the day? unday, Oct. 26, was have the ultimate responsibility with This will necessitate some accommo - S management of large financial bud - dations with the usual parish Mass designated this year gets, as well as the proper mainte - schedule, as well as require from Education program for priests builds good leaders, good shepherds as Priesthood Sunday by nance of large parish plants. parishioners some flexibility in the Good Leaders, Good Shepherds is a scheduling of meetings, events and Worldwide Marriage program uniquely designed to help even funerals. By BOB HART Encounter and the Serra priests develop some of the leadership Your priests are giving their time to Special to The Leaven and management skills that will help participate in Good Leaders, Good Club. I am very pleased them be more effective in their admin - Shepherds in order to acquire knowl - KANSAS CITY, Kan. — More than by this initiative of the istrative roles, thus allowing them to edge and to develop skills that will 30 archdiocesan priests are heading words: “Using Jesus Christ as the ulti - devote more time to their pastoral and help them be even more effective in back to school a little late this fall, but laity to express apprecia - mate shepherd and model of leader - spiritual responsibilities. The feedback their priestly ministry. Please give their occasional absence from their ship, the Good Leaders, Good that I have received from bishops in them your support and encourage - parishes promises to pay dividends to tion for our priests. Shepherds curriculum for clergy was several dioceses where Good Leaders, ment. their congregations in the long run. As I visit in parishes across the specifically designed to help Catholic Good Shepherds has been offered is In my experience, the priests of the At the two-year-long “Good Archdiocese, I am gratified by the love priests minimize the frustration and extremely positive. Archdiocese are already very good Leaders, Good and affection the people of the energy spent on their administrative I am very pleased that more than 30 leaders and very good shepherds. I am Shepherds” Archdiocese have for their priests. I am roles and to maximize the joy and time of our priests have chosen to enroll in excited that so many of our priests will program, even more edified by the zeal and ded - spent on the pastoral duties for which Good Leaders, Good Shepherds. It is a have the opportunity to develop and The goal is say organiz - ication of our priests in striving to pour they were uniquely ordained.” significant time commitment on their improve their leadership and adminis - ers, priests out their lives in service for the Lord The seminary formation of our part. The Good Leaders, Good trative skills. In the end, our parishes to have will learn to and his people. priests is concentrated on their spiritu - Shepherds program will span two will be the beneficiaries of this pro - manage the Next week, more than 30 of our al, theological, human and pastoral years, involving six multi-day gram. healthier, “ time spent priests will participate for several days formation. Consequently, there is rela - overnight workshops, as well as about Whether your priest is able to par - happier, on adminis - in the first session of a program called tively little time available to prepare a dozen half-day meetings. ticipate in Good Leaders, Good “ trative du - “Good Leaders, Good Shepherds.” The priests adequately for the administra - If your pastor or associate pastor is Shepherds or not, please continue to more ties more Good Leaders, Good Shepherds cur - tive responsibilities that their pastoral participating in Good Leaders, Good give him your prayerful support and wisely, so as riculum was developed by the Catholic ministry will require. Priests are ex - Shepherds, I encourage you to support encouragement. Pray for me and all of energized to leave Leadership Institute that is located in pected to effectively lead large staffs, them in this endeavor. Their participa - our priests, that day by day we might more time Philadelphia. The Catholic Leadership as well as direct large volunteer orga - tion in the program will require that become more and more shepherds af - priests. for the pas - Institute describes the purpose of Good nizations with little formal training in they are absent from the parish some - ter the heart of Jesus. Father John Riley, toral work Leaders, Good Shepherds in these human resource management. They times for several days in a given week. chairman of that attract - continuing ed them to education and the priest - formation for hood in the priests first place. “The Today’s priests juggle multiple responsibil - goal is to ities. That’s why the archdiocese is offering have healthi - a program to teach priests better ways to er, happier, more energized priests,” manage their administrative duties, which said Father John Riley, pastor of will hopefully help them free up more time Immaculate Conception Parish in St. for the real work they were ordained to do. Marys and chairman of continuing ed - ucation and formation for priests. The program consists of six mod - “We want to be up to the task of lead - ules: ing vibrant parishes and communi - •Self-Preparation for Leadership ties.” •Leading in the Self Context The program, created by the •Leading in the One-to-One Catholic Leadership Institute in Context Exton, Pa., has had great success in •Leading in the Team Context other dioceses around the country •Leading in the Organization and came to the attention of Context Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann, who •Leading Strategic Relationships asked Father Riley to explore it fur - between Organizations ther. Following a successful screen - Each training module includes ing, the program was recommended time for prayer, liturgy and fraternity. to the Presbyteral Council and eventu - Some of the sessions are half-days, helping them grieve. We’re going to ally to all the priests of the archdio - but others require overnight stays at have to call upon our fellow priests to cese. Savior Pastoral Center. help out in those situations. And we’ll “It’s a leadership program for “There will be some sacrifice on the be asking people to understand that priests — specifically for priests, not part of the parishes,” Father Riley Father cannot be there every minute.” just some off-the-shelf executive train - said. “There are at least six overnight Priests’ participation is voluntary, ing program,” said Father Riley. “It’s sessions, and they’re absolutely re - and the cost of the program is split designed specifically for us to help us quired. No one can leave. That is, in three ways. The priest himself pays 20 face some of the challenges we have and of itself, a challenge. percent, his parish pays 20 percent, today, with fewer priests, more ad - “If someone were to die in a parish, and the continuing education pro - ministrative duties and more and for instance, of course the priest gram for the archdiocese pays the re - more complex decisions.” would want to be with the family, maining 60 percent. Among the many bishops who have offered their endorsement of the Learn more at www.catholicleaders.org program are: Cardinal Adam Maida, “Using Jesus Christ as the ultimate shepherd and model of leadership, archbishop of Detroit; Cardinal Justin the Good Leaders, Good Shepherds curriculum for clergy was specifically Rigali, archbishop of Philadelphia; designed to help Catholic priests overcome the challenges today of a di - Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley, OFM Cap., minishing number of clergy and more complex circumstances for priestly archbishop of Boston; and Cardinal ministry. The goal is to minimize the frustration and energy spent on their Daniel N. DiNardo, archbishop of administrative roles and maximize the joy and time spent on the pastoral Galveston-Houston. duties for which they were uniquely ordained. The impact will be more More than 25 dioceses nationwide holy, healthy, and happy shepherds of vibrant parish communities, lead - have completed or signed up for the ing more people to a deeper relationship with Christ.” program, including the neighboring dioceses of Dodge City and Salina in Kansas. 4 LOCAL NEWS THE LEAVEN • NOVEMBER 7, 2008 THE LEAVEN • NOVEMBER 7, 2008 LOCAL NEWS 5

Connor Vining, a member of Boy Virgil Dechant, former Supreme Scout Troop No. 18 Knight of the Knights of Columbus, in Tecumseh and St. shared his collection of papal mem - Topeka school experiences unprecedented success Matthew Parish, orabilia with those in attendance at Topeka, has at - “An Evening of Memories of Popes tained the rank of John Paul II and Benedict XVI” Oct. By MARC and JULIE ANDERSON Eagle Scout. He was 26. Among the items were: (from Special to The Leaven recognized in a left) a brick used to cement in the Court of Honor Sept. Holy Year Door that was removed in TOPEKA — Last month, teachers 14, at St. Matthew. 1975; the constitution of the and administrators here at Most His Eagle service Missionaries of Charity, auto - Pure Heart of Mary Elementary project entailed landscaping the Karen graphed by Mother Teresa; and the School in Topeka learned how their Stahel Memorial mosaic, “Mother of the Church,” students had scored on the State EAGLE SCOUTS Garden at Tecumseh created by Vatican mosaic studios. Assessment Exams given last South Elementary School. Photos by John Caulfield spring. And, oh, how they scored. Adam Smith, a member of Boy Scout Out of a total of 20 possible areas Troop No. 46 and in which a school could achieve a Most Pure Heart of Standard of Excellence, Most Pure Mary Parish, True insiders share their memories of life with the popes Heart students achieved exactly 20 Topeka, received — the only school in the archdio - the Eagle Scout cese to do so. Award on Sept. 21 at By KARA HANSEN It’s an accomplishment that both a Court of Honor at Leaven staff school and archdiocesan officials the church. For his say is “unprecedented.” Eagle project, Smith LEAWOOD — “Da Vinci Code” fans Administered by the Kansas painted the interior would have been disappointed. Department of Education, the ex - of Birthright, Inc., in Topeka. But for anyone who is interested in ams are administered annually to knowing what really goes on inside the students in the third through eighth Leaven photo/Marc Anderson Nicholas Stone, a member of Boy Vatican, the Church of the Nativity in grades and evaluate whether stu - Wyatt Schmidt, a fourth-grader at Most Pure Heart of Mary School in Topeka,works on an Scout Troop No. 449 Leawood was the place to be Oct. 26. dents are meeting minimum stan - assignment at the computer. Most Pure Heart of Mary School was the only one in the arch - and a parishioner of It was that night that Dr. Robert dards for their grade levels in math - diocese to achieve the Standard of Excellence classification in each of the 20 categories St. Michael the Moynihan, founder and editor of ematics and reading. measured by the annual test administered by the Kansas Department of Education. Archangel Parish in Inside the Vatican magazine, and Virgil For the first time last spring, stu - Leawood, recently Dechant, former Supreme Knight of dents at the fourth- and seventh- The next day, principal Bill the concepts in all subject areas,” he obtained the rank of the Knights of Columbus and Nativity grade levels were also evaluated in Hund gathered the students who said. “Our students are strongly Eagle Scout. For his parishioner, joined forces to present science, while sixth- and eighth- had taken the test for a group pic - supported by our families and high - Eagle project, Stone “An Evening of Memories of Popes graders were tested in social stud - ture and announced the school’s ly motivated to show what they planned and super - John Paul II and Benedict XVI.” ies. Currently, schools have the op - success to them. A few days later, know and what they can do.” vised the construc - Both speakers had personal rela - tion of taking the exams via pencil teachers rewarded the students In addition to committed teach - tion of a workbench for use by the tech - tionships with the two most recent Robert Moynihan, founder and editor of Inside the Vatican magazine, au - Virgil Dechant, former Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus and and paper or online. with an extra recess, and the ers, updated technology and hard nology office of St. Michael the popes and shared their insights, experi - tographs copies of his book on Pope Benedict XVI following his joint pre - Church of the Nativity parishioner, shares highlights of a career spent Despite limited financial re - Parent-Teacher Organization pro - work, school officials are quick to Archangel School. ences and observations with the crowd sentation with Virgil Dechant at Church of the Nativity in Leawood. working closely with the last several popes. sources, the school’s administration vided ice cream sandwiches for the list parental involvement as another of approximately 125. made the decision a few years ago students. reason for the school’s recent Joshua D. Van Laar , a member of “The press described Pope Catholics of our time, a man who Holy Father being rushed inside,” re - doors to Christ. I think those words to update the school’s computer Later, during a special meeting achievement. Boy Scout Troop No. Benedict as the ‘rottweiler of God,’” knows Pope Benedict XVI, who knew called Dechant. “The crowd was com - were the message and theme of John labs to allow for online testing. It’s a for the faculty and staff, everyone in Two-way communication is the 53 and St. Benedict recalled Moynihan. “And the fasci - John Paul II, Paul VI, and was a best pletely stunned; no one knew what to Paul’s papacy,” said Dechant. decision that Sharon Kenagy, the attendance was given a certificate norm, not the exception. As an ex - parish, Bendena, re - nating thing is that of all the exag - friend of Pope Pius XII. He has truly think. Then one archbishop began Dechant was quick to give credit for technology coordinator, said makes of thanksgiving, along with a ample, one teacher shared an e- cently earned the gerations in the press, this may be been inside the Vatican, whereas I’m leading the rosary.” his remarkable experiences to the or - sense for students in the 21st centu - turkey, in appreciation for his or her mail he’d recently received from a rank of Eagle Scout. the most extreme. simply near the Vatican,” joked Despite the shock and fear of that ganization he has faithfully served for ry. efforts in helping the school become parent. He was recognized “In fact, he likes cats, and, if any - Moynihan. incident, Dechant said the love that so long. “We had lots of people telling us a School of Excellence. It read: “Never underestimate at a Court of Honor thing . . . he is most similar to Heidi’s Moynihan expounded on the papacy John Paul II showed toward his “Everything I have is really because the kids would do much better with No success comes without a lot of the power of your words and worth! at Trinity Episcopal grandfather in the Alps.” of Pope Benedict XVI, discussing his almost-assassin was incredible. of my position in the Knights of paper and pencil,” said Kenagy, hard work, and both teachers and Cole came home from school Friday Church on Sept 20. “The press called him that because reform of the church and the historical “For him to visit him in prison and Columbus,” said Dechant. “but we believed our kids would do administrators say Most Pure Heart telling me all about the video you Van Laar’s Eagle he was so firm in defending the faith,” significance of a German pope. to forgive him after spending 100 days The evening was co-sponsored by best using their own medium, the of Mary School is a place where put together praising and congratu - project consisted of erecting historical explained Moynihan. “He has always “He does not believe in imposing the recuperating — what an act of mercy,” the Nativity Knights of Columbus and computer.” hard work is a way of life. lating the students for their achieve - markers throughout Atchison, commem - spoken the truth in love, and his entire faith but proposing the faith, and then said Dechant. the Catholic churches of Leawood, The assessment results were According to Mike Stallbaumer, ments on state assessments. I bet he orating key buildings and locations. pontificate has been a teaching pontifi - embracing that belief out of love,” said For Dechant, John Paul II’s act of comprised of Nativity, Curé of Ars, posted last month on the Kansas who with Kenagy teaches classes in used the word awesome five or six cate.” Moynihan. public forgiveness was simply the con - and St. Michael the Archangel. As Department of Education’s Web media and technology for sixth- times when telling me about the Moynihan paid special tribute to Dechant, in turn, shared his first - tinuation of the type of papacy John part of the event, participants were site. School officials say they looked through eighth-graders, said the whole day. . . . I, too, think it is pret - Eagle Scouts are printed only Dechant during the evening, as their hand account of the assassination at - Paul II had set out to lead. able to view Dechant’s extensive col - up the results almost as soon as they faculty and staff are amazing. ty awesome when you can impress when space is available. Notices can paths have crossed many times over tempt on Pope John Paul II in St. “At his first papal audience three lection of papal memorabilia and to were available and then alerted the “They work tirelessly and ‘be - an upper level student the way you be e-mailed to: [email protected] the years. Peter’s Square in 1981. days after he was installed, the Holy visit with the speakers after their pre - teachers and staff by e-mail. yond the call’ to achieve mastery of did.” or mailed to: 12615 Parallel Pkwy, “I was summoned here by a man I “Those shots rang out in [St. Father addressed the crowd and told sentations. Kansas City, KS 66109. consider to be one of the great Peter’s] Square and you could see the us, ‘Be not afraid’ and to open wide the

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Donna and Tony Flamez , members of University of Saint Mary to Conception Seminary has record enrollment Holy Angels Parish, host Founders Day Concert Garnett, will LEAVENWORTH — The University By JARROD THOME do have a demanding schedule. But the celebrate their of Saint Mary department of fine arts- Special to The Leaven stretching this causes them to do is 50th wedding music will present its annual Founders nothing more than the growing pains anniversary on associated with drawing closer to God Day Concert at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 9 in CONCEPTION , Mo. — If you turn Nov. 8. The Annunciation Chapel here, at 4100 S. on the news today, most likely you’ll be on the path to the priesthood. couple was married on Nov. 8, 1958, at St. And as far as growing pains are con - 4th St. The concert is in honor of the inundated with reports of rising prices, John the Evangelist Church, Kansas City, Kan. 150th anniversary of the founding of economic turmoil, and distillations of cerned, they’re not the only ones going Their children are: Steven Flamez, Joseph through them. Due to this blessing of the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth. fiscal policy discussions from the most Flamez and Katrina The concert will feature the USM recent political debates. increased vocations, the seminary itself ANNIVERSARIES Denk. They have six must grow in order to meet the in - Concert Chorale, the USM Violin Amid this constant barrage, it’s grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Quartet, Freda Proctor (flutist), and good to remind ourselves that the U.S. creased demands of more and more young men discerning priestly forma - William Krusemark (baritone). The and world economy is a bit different Leo and Joan (Ridder) Helget, mem - program is entitled “Go Ye Into the from the “economy of salvation” — tion. bers of St. This is something Conception Entire World,” to reflect the extension God’s plan for our redemption accom - Joseph of the Sisters’ mission throughout the plished through the church. Seminary College has done time and Parish, Flush, NEW EAGLE SCOUTS time again over the course of its histo - Troop No. 265 of Holy Spirit in Overland Park inducted four new Eagle Scouts with a cere - world. The chorale will perform a set - With that in mind, here is some will celebrate ting of the text “Go Ye Into All the breaking news that you might actually ry, as evidenced through initiatives their 60th mony on Aug. 10. They are, from left: Patrick Doyle, Devin Blazek, Matthew Rohde, and such as program for deacon formation Michael Robison. Rohde’s service project was the construction of new clothing racks to be World” by Kansas City-area composer want to hear: A record enrollment at wedding an - Eugene Butler. Other pieces will in - Conception Seminary College in and for pre-theology. The seminary niversary on used at the annual parish garage sale, which until then had used rentals. Blazek’s service also offers the Language, Culture, and project was the landscape renovation in front of the Holy Trinity Parish office in Lenexa; clude instrumental works by Handel, Conception, Mo., bodes well for the Nov. 16 with a reception following the Pachelbel, and Gluck, as well as spiri - economy (of salvation). Church program, which this past sum - 8:45 a.m. Mass for family and friends in brick and mulch replaced dead shrubbery, flowers were planted, and decorative post and mer was offered specifically for inter - chain was placed around the perimeter. For his service project, Doyle designed and con - tuals by Hall Johnson. Why? Because an increase in future the parish dining hall. The couple was The concert is free and open to the priests means that the message of the national priests. married on Nov. 18, 1948, at the church. structed a teacher’s podium for Terry Smiley, of Holy Spirit Grade School. Robison’s pro - As numbers grow, the facilities, fac - ject was the design and construction of an art easel and drying rack for the Holy Spirit public. Call (913) 682-5151, ext. Gospel will reach more people, and the Hosts of the event will be their children 6460, for more information. people who are already receiving it Justin Hamilton (left), Colin Haganey, Jamie Zarse and Brian Jika are four seminarians from the ulty and staff are stretched and and their spouses: Gary and Sara Helget, preschool. will receive it more effectively. Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas who help make up a record enrollment at Conception strained to their limits, but nothing is Westmoreland; Donna Helget, Denver; With 108 young men on the path to Seminary College in Conception, Mo. uncomfortable yet. and Jo and Randy Schmitt, Manhattan. When asked about the possibility of the priesthood at Conception Seminary They also have five grandchildren and six Correction College — including four seminarians things for the future. What does this use. A typical schedule for a seminari - even further growth, Father Samuel, great-grandchildren. Sister Susan Wood, SCL, to speak at USM from the Archdiocese of Kansas City in growth look like, though, in the specif - an finds him in the Holy Cross Oratory president-rector of the seminary, said, The photo of the pro-life procession Kansas — and nine young monks in ic context of a bustling seminary or a — the seminary chapel —at 7 a.m. for “If enrollment does continue to in - Loretta (Tubowich) and Ward Spidel, LEAVENWORTH — Sister Susan the theology department at Marquette on page 16 of the Oct. 31 issue of The formation for Conception Abbey, it ap - vibrant religious community? the office of readings and morning crease significantly, we’ll have hous - members of Prince of Peace Parish, Olathe, Wood, SCL, Ph.D., a specialist in church University in Milwaukee. She is a Leaven was inaccurately credited. Don pears that the Holy Spirit is at work in Thanks to an 88 percent increase in prayer from the Liturgy of the Hours. ing, classrooms and additional teach - will celebrate their 65th wedding anniver - and sacramental theology, will present a renowned ecclesiologist with a special Wolf took the photo. The Leaven re - answering the prayers of Catholics for enrollment since 1996, Conception From then on, the day is packed ers to worry about — a happy problem, sary on Nov. 13. The couple was married on lecture at the University of Saint Mary emphasis on ecumenism. grets the error. Be sure to check out vocations. Seminary College can call itself one of with classes, Mass, student committee but a challenge nonetheless.” Nov. 13, 1943, at St. Anthony Parish, Kansas here at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 13 in Xavier Her topic will be “Rediscovering more of Wolf’s photos from the proces - On a broader level, Conception may the largest free-standing college semi - meetings, wellness activities, forma - With the continued prayerful sup - City, Kan. Their children are: Sandra Spidel, Theatre. Church as Community.” The lecture is sion online in the video section at: very well be a bellwether of the times naries in the nation. To accommodate tion conferences, and/or reflection port of the Catholic community, Minneapolis; and Timothy Spidel, Man- Sister Susan, a former theology free and open to the public. Call (913) www.theleaven.com. to come, ringing in the dawn of Pope this growth, renovations to St. Maur groups depending on the day. Things Conception Seminary will continue to hattan. They also have a granddaughter. teacher at USM, is currently the chair of 758-4332 for more information. John Paul II’s “springtime of the Hall, the main seminary administra - finally start winding down with 5:50 face its challenges and, with God’s church.” tion and classroom building, were p.m. evening prayer and the subse - grace, see them to a joyous resolution. In any case, it is plain to see that this completed in 2005. quent evening meal. auspicious beginning of the 2008-09 Today, the seminarians, faculty and As you can see, the young men in Jarrod Thome is the director of com - There are a academic year can only mean good staff are putting the building to good priestly formation at Conception really munications for Conception Abbey. lot of good A Day of Enrichment for Married Couples reasons to Concrete Work CHRISTOPHER WEST Any type of repair and new work make Driveways, Walks, Patios Member of Queen of the Holy Rosary Parish Catholic “In the Beginning: Rediscovering Harvey M. 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CIPIO — When Father Jerry Williams visited St. Boniface S Parish here for the first time in could 1986 as vocation director for the Carmelites, he never imagined he’d be part of its 150th anniversary celebration St. Columbkille celebrates 100 years 22 years later . . . but he hoped. “I was traveling a lot and used to come here and help BY JILL RAGAR ESFELD Another picture of the church was on out during Holy display and everyone in attendance was To order a copy Special to The Leaven Week,” he said. “I fell encouraged to autograph it. The church of St. Boniface’s in love with it right was decorated with an Irish theme in sesquicentenni - LAINE — “We’re the small away, and I would al - honor of the original Irish community al history book, parish that can get things ways leave here say - that established the parish and still has contact Father done,” claimed St. ing, ‘I hope I get as - B many descendants in the area. Jerry Williams Columbkille Parish council signed here sometime During the Mass, Archbishop at (785) 835- president Todd Shepherd. later in life.’” Naumann, who is from St. Louis, said he 6273. And the proof was in the lively 100th Last November, anniversary celebra - was glad to be carrying when Father Jerry tion of the communi - on the Blaine/St. Louis was finishing up his 14th year teaching ty’s parish church, connection — making in Chicago, his provincial approached which was packed for reference to the fact that him with the news that a new pastor was the occasion. the Irish immigrants who needed in Scipio. In preparation for originally started the “He said to me, ‘Your name keeps the anniversary event parish were from the coming up and I need to know if you’re held Oct. 19, which Kerry Patch in St. Louis. serious about that,’” recalled Father also was celebrating Even among other Jerry. “So I told him I had always consid - the completion of a honorary guests, howev - ered going to Kansas later in life. new roof, invitations er, parishioner Mary “Then he grabbed my arm and said, were sent out to area Cummings stood alone: ‘Well, you’re kind of there.’” an open house of the renovated priory Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann celebrates St. priests and an - The 102-year-old was a “I guess ‘later in life’ snuck up on me,” that drew 400 guests for a tour. Many of Boniface’s 150th anniversary Mass on Oct. 19 nouncement cards member of the parish chuckled Father Jerry. them were former parishioners who re - along with: (from left) Abbot Owen Purcell, were provided to all when the original corner - It didn’t take Father Jerry long after membered attending CCD classes there, OSB; Father Jerry Williams, O. Carm., pastor parishioners so they stone of the church was arriving in Scipio this past July to settle but had never before been allowed be - of St. Boniface; Father Clyde Ozminkowski, O. could notify family set in 1908. into this small parish of 70 families. And yond the first floor. Carm., former pastor, currently retired and Mass was followed by members of the cele - Father Arul Carasala, pastor, proclaims the Gospel at the 100th anniversary Mass of St. Columbkille the Carmelites, having just completed an So the 150th anniversary held Oct. 19 in residence at Scipio; Father David McEvoy, O. a dinner reception. bration. in Blaine. extensive renovation of the priory at St. celebrated both the 150 years of history Carm., pastor of St. Joseph/Immaculate In the end, the extra effort paid off. Pastor Father Arul Carasala said the Boniface, have made a commitment, too. of one of the oldest parishes in the arch - Conception in Leavenworth; and Very Rev. “It was an awesome day, kind of like meal was provided by the parish as a “St. Boniface is the second oldest diocese, and the renovation of the priory Jack Welch, prior provincial of the Carmelites, a little reunion,” said Pat Wulf, a mem - way of thanking parishioners for doing Carmelite parish in the United States; St. that will serve Scipio into the future. Province of the Most Pure Heart of Mary. ber of the liturgy committee. “It was so much work on the church and donat - Joseph in Leavenworth is the oldest,” “It was a glorious day,” said Father neat to see cousins and friends and peo - ing so generously for the new roof. said Father Jerry. “Our provincial Jerry. “There was a festive atmosphere and commemorative pewter Christmas ple you grew up with coming back; In the end, all involved with the an - [Father Jack Welch] spoke about that at all day and a very successful and beauti - ornaments struck with a picture of the some nuns were there that taught at the niversary celebration felt blessed. the anniversary celebration and said that ful turnout.” church on one side and a brief history school, and there were priests there who “It takes a lot to keep a parish going, with the renovation of this priory, the Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann on the other. had been in the parish before. and celebrations like this are so neat be - Carmelites have made a strong recom - presided at the Mass. In addition to the The Feuerborn Family Funeral “The church was full. We’re just a re - cause it brings everybody together and mitment to stay in Kansas and to serve Carmelite provincial, the Midwest re - Services put together a DVD of the ally small community with only 55 fami - gives us all a sense of belonging,” said the archdiocese.” gional superior Father David Simpson parish’s history for the occasion, and lies, so seeing the church full again was Wulf. “We are rural people really work - The parish of St. Boniface was estab - was in attendance, as were several other the parish is publishing a sesquicenten - really neat.” ing hard, and we’re just really proud of lished in 1858 by a small community of visiting priests. nial history book that will be available Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann our church.” German immigrants who still have many “Fourth-degree Knights of Columbus by Christmas. presided at the anniversary Mass, and Shepherd agreed, adding, “I think descendents in the area. The Carmelites provided an honor guard and At the end of the day, Father Jerry many parishioners, young and old, took what’s a blessing to me is how commit - arrived in 1864. Archbishop Naumann gave a beautiful said he was impressed with the history part, some in the procession that includ - ted our parishioners are to their church, The priory was built in 1905; its re - homily on the role of priests in parish life and stability of the parish, but also ed a church banner and a picture of St. their faith, their priests, the archbishop cent renovation was financed by the sale and how that was an ongoing part of the confident in its future. Columbkille. and the archdiocese.” of 450 acres of farmland owned by the Carmelite commitment here at Scipio al - “We have a fairly large population parish. Father Jerry and former pastor most from the beginning of the parish,” of young families, so it’s got a bright hospitality open,” he added, “so that Father Clyde Ozminkowski now live said Father Jerry. future still. There’s a real commitment not only outsiders, but also younger there and hope to open it up for individu - After Mass, guests shared a dinner and dedication by the families here to Carmelites will come and visit and als who would like to come there on re - coordinated by the Altar Society. The support and to care for their parish,” hopefully fall in love with the place, treat. day also included games and enter - he said. like I did so many years ago.” Earlier in October, St. Boniface hosted tainment for children, a quilt raffle, “My intention is to keep the doors of

Parishioner Jake Strobel provides en - tertainment for the little ones during Scipio’s anniversary celebration. Father John Riley assists Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann at the sprinkling rite during Mass at St. Photos by Columbkille Church. In addition to marking 100 years, the parish was also celebrating the comple - tion of the church’s new roof. Susan

Father Earl Dekat chats with Mary Cummings, the parish’s oldest member. The 102-year-old McSpadden Cummings was a member of the parish when the original cornerstone of the church was set in 1908. 10 NATION THE LEAVEN • NOVEMBER 7, 2008 THE LEAVEN • NOVEMBER 7, 2008 WORLD 11

Refugees increase, but still Official welcomes quick far below pre-9/11 numbers Stories of Europe’s ‘secret Sisters’ finally told Biblical response to Jesuits’ murders WASHINGTON (CNS) — The number of OXFORD, England (CNS) — An official refugees admitted to the United States in By P ATRICIA BARTOS illiteracy can of the Russian Catholic bishops’ confer - the fiscal year ending in September in - Catholic News Service ence has welcomed the quick official re - creased substantial - actions to the mur - BRIEFLY PITTSBURGH (CNS) — Theirs is the BRIEFLY ly over the previous lead to easy der of two Jesuit two years, though it still falls far short of great untold story of modern Europe priests in Moscow and insisted that resettlements before the 2001 terrorist — the “secret Sisters,” who for more Catholic clergy will not be deterred from attacks brought changes to admissions than 40 years under communism took working in the country. “We’ve received requirements. Of the more than 60,000 their vows, lived out their calling and manipulation condolences from representatives of refugees admitted between October 2007 kept the faith alive, all in isolation and Russia’s state president and parliament and September 2008, nearly 30 percent in constant fear of discovery. and strong reactions from press and TV, The depth of their commitment as By C AROL GLATZ — 17,283 people — were resettled through Catholic News Service as well as from other religious commu - Migration and Refugee Services of the part of the underground church will nities who were shocked by this dreadful U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. In come to life on television screens next crime,” said Father Igor Kovalevsky, year through a documentary in pro - VATICAN CITY (CNS) — A lack of 2007, the U.S. admitted just 48,281 biblical literacy can make people, even conference secretary-general. As inves - refugees, compared with 94,222 who ar - duction by NewGroup Media in South tigations were under way into the mur - Bend, Ind. Titled “Interrupted Lives: Catholics, more susceptible to believing rived in the 2000 fiscal year, before post- the distortions and falsifications in bib - ders of Fathers Otto Messmer and Victor 9/11 security concerns changed the vet - Catholic Sisters Under European Betancourt, whose bodies were found Communism,” the program is funded lical texts published by the Brooklyn- ting system for refugees. Since then, the CNS photo/Giampiero Sposito, Reuters late Oct. 28 in their Moscow apartment, in part by the U.S. bishops’ Catholic based Watch Tower Society, said an ar - annual admissions number has dipped as POPE JOHN XXIII LIES IN TOMB — The body of Blessed Pope John XXIII lies in a tomb in St. Peter's ticle in the Vatican newspaper . Father Kovalevsky told Catholic News low as 39,201 in 2003. By comparison, Communication Campaign. Service, “It’s clear the authorities are “What strikes me is that we all know Basilica at the Vatican Oct. 28. Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Vatican secretary of state, celebrated While secularism “poses serious MRS on its own processed tens of thou - an evening memorial Mass to mark the 50th anniversary of the election of Pope John. problems also for the preaching of fully engaged in inquiries and deter - sands of refugees each year in the 1970s about the Holocaust, which lasted for mined to apprehend the perpetrators six years, but what about these 43 Jehovah’s Witnesses,” the article and 1980s. In 1980 alone, MRS handled said, the religious illiteracy that immediately and do everything in their years of suffering?” said Sister CNS photo/courtesy NewGroup Media the entry of 132,000 of the 207,000 ad - comes with secularism also can cre - power to ensure appropriate punish - Margaret Nacke. “No one knows this VIDEOGRAPHER FILMS ACTRESS PROTRAYING NUN — Videographer Douglas Thomas of Blessed Pope John XXIII mitted nationwide. ate fertile terrain for creating new ments.” He said the conference had not story.” NewGroup Media films an actress portraying Sister Anne Lehner, a Sister of Social Service, who converts. received “news of any previous threats She and Sister Mary Savoie, both St. escaped from Communist-controlled Hungary into Austria in 1952. Church must be generous, L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican or possible motives for the killings.” Joseph Sisters of Concordia, have col - worked for unity, peace prudent in uncertain economy lected some 3,000 oral histories from needs of religious communities emerg - and was happy that I continued her vo - newspaper, published an article called Sisters in eight countries over the last ing from the underground. cation. I was so happy to invite my par - “Jehovah’s Witnesses: Just Incredible!” Archdiocese starts campaign WORCESTER, Mass. (CNS) — In these Bishop Roberto Amadei of Bergamo 15 years. The oral histories formed the Sisters in the United States have the ents to my 25th.” By C INDY WOODEN in its Oct. 29 weekly edition in English. uncertain economic times “the church told Pope Benedict that his diocese in state with most murders basis for the documentary and for support of their community, said Sister Sister Paula Cicos of the Mother of Catholic News Service The article, written by author Valerio has to set an example of what it means wanted to give thanks to God for the RECIFE, Brazil (CNS) — Reacting to “Faces of Faith,” a traveling exhibit Dia Stasiuk of the Basilian order in God Sisters in Romania had been a Polidori, first appeared in the paper’s to be generous but also be very deliber - papacy of Blessed Pope John. statistics that show the state of they take to religious communities. Liviv, Ukraine, while those living un - Sister for six years, living at home and VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Marking daily Italian edition July 25. ate about how we spend the temporal “He made himself a brother and fa - Pernambuco has the highest murder The exhibit can be viewed online at: der communism “didn’t know who working in a biological research lab. the 50th anniversary of the election of “Poor knowledge of the sacred texts goods the people have given to us,” said ther on the pathways of the world, in rate in the country, a Brazilian archdio - www.csjkansas.org, under “News.” they could trust.” Approaching her final vows, she told Blessed Pope John XXIII, Pope favors the spread of garish and awk - Bishop Robert J. McManus of Worcester. the East and in the West, to tell of the cese has launched a campaign with the “The Sisters show what it was to be In the early ’90s, she said, for the her parents. Benedict XVI said his predecessor al - ward manipulations” of the Bible, it He said he sent a letter to pastors re - goodness of the Lord, to give hope and Fifth Commandment as its theme. As faithful to the church and God and to first time since the fall of communism, “They cried a lot,” she said. “It was ways worked to increase agreement, said. cently urging them to be vigilant with the to sow that peace that always flows part of the “Thou Shall Not Kill” cam - continue their ministry wherever they “the Sisters in Ukraine came together, not easy. They came with me in secret hope, unity and peace. It said the Watch Tower Society’s finances of the parishes. “In times like from the merciful heart of God, the fa - paign, the names of murder victims will were,” Sister Mary said. The documen - 90 of them, and began recognizing to a house as I took my vows. They “The pope was a man of peace and a “The New World Translation of the this the wisest thing is not expansion,” ther of all,” the bishop said. be read at weekend Masses in the tary “really tells the story of the each other. It was ‘Oh, you’re a Sister gave me a blessing, crying.” pastor of peace who knew how to open Holy Scriptures” contains text that has he said in a late October interview with Pope Benedict told the pilgrims, “A Archdiocese of Olinda and Recife until Catholic Church under communism too?’ We knew each other only in small The U.S. Sisters at the Villa Maria unexpected horizons for fraternity been manipulated by translators mak - The Catholic Free Press, Worcester dioce - truly special gift offered to the church the state's murder rate goes down. For and tells how these people are an ex - groups, and only by first names, for meeting were among more than 200 among Christians and dialogue with ing “completely arbitrary additions or san newspaper. The economic crisis also with John XXIII was the Second the campaign, archdiocesan officials are ample for us.” safety.” who helped their East and Central all in the East and the West,” Pope subtractions.” has a dimension that can lead people to Vatican Council,” which he called, pre - working with pebodycount.com.br, Their stories are stark, dramatic and The Sisters could not even tell their European counterparts by establishing Benedict said after praying at the tomb It said Jehovah’s Witnesses promote seek spiritual comfort from the church. pared and opened in 1962. which keeps track of the murder victims very moving, telling of Sisters impris - own families of their vocations, for fear pastoral centers, updating libraries, of Blessed Pope John. the revival of “an Arian type of “Sometimes challenging times help peo - “We are all committed to accepting in the state. “It is not possible for the oned in concentration camps, sent to of endangering them. teaching English and hosting leader - Some 3,000 pilgrims from the Christology” which believes Christ was ple to put things into perspective. And if that gift in an appropriate way, contin - society to think the violence numbers in hard labor in Siberia, beaten for teach - Sister Terez Muranyi took her first ship workshops. Diocese of Bergamo, the home diocese fully human but not divine. we are honest in our evaluation of what’s uing to meditate on its teachings and our state are normal. People don’t have ing and practicing the faith. vows in secret in 1977 in Romania, as Romania’s Sister Terez participated of Blessed Pope John, traveled to the More must be done to promote ba - gone on for the last number of years, in translate them” into the daily life of the an understanding of the numbers and Earlier this year, 21 Sisters from an Eastern Catholic member of the in the forum from the very beginning. Vatican to mark the anniversary of his sic biblical literacy, especially of young some ways some people have been living church, he said. the complexity of this epidemic,” said Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Ukraine Sisters of Social Service. “We knew a little of our own world Oct. 28, 1958, election. people, to help counteract the slow but over their heads,” the bishop said. In an Pope Benedict also used the occa - Vandson Holanda, coordinator of the and Poland gathered at the Villa Maria “My family did not know anything but not of the suffering of others,” she Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Vatican steady decline of biblical culture in the Oct. 24 pastoral letter the people of the sion to ask the pilgrims from Bergamo archdiocesan health commission. In the Community Center in Villa Maria, Pa., till 1993,” she said. When the news said. “We knew how to suffer, how to secretary of state, presided at the Western world, it said. diocese, Bishop McManus said, “For to remember the importance Pope John first nine months of this year the num - with some 30 U.S. members of the reached her mother, “she was very be brave, to pray, but not how to live in evening memorial Mass with the pil - Jehovah’s Witnesses is a millennial - many, the opportunity exists to rediscov - placed on families and on parishes as ber of homicides in the state was 3,093. International Forum for Sisters, happy,” Sister Terez said. “She wanted community life, how to form young grims, while Pope Benedict joined ist religious body founded in er a life of trust in God, of simpler choic - the most important place for Catholics Roughly 42,000 Pernambucans were formed in the 1990s to respond to the to become a nun when she was young Sisters in religious life.” them later for prayers at the pope’s Pittsburgh in 1872. es, or the blessing of family life.” tomb and for a brief address. to grow in and celebrate their faith. murdered between 1996 and 2005.

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Serving the JoCo Member of St. Agnes – Call Tim (913) 626-5020 * Clean-up and hauling Antique/Vintage Costume Jewelry Kansas City, Kan., will host a chili dinner Ascension Parish, 9510 W. 127th St., Casimir Church, 719 Pennsylvania Ave., vicinity. * Dirt grading/installation Member St. Joseph Parish, Shawnee and bingo on Nov. 8. Dinner will be Overland Park, will host guest speaker Leavenworth, will host its annual golumb - Topsoil and fill dirt delivered - Southern * Landscape design Renee Maderak (913) 631-7179 served from 6:15 - 7:15 p.m., with bingo Nan Borchardt at 7 p.m. on Nov. 11 in the 16 St. Pius X Parish, 5500 ki dinner from noon - 3 p.m. on Nov. 23 in Preserve your memories by telling your life Johnson County area. Other landscape materials * Free estimates following at 7:30 p.m. The cost of $15 in - lower level of the church. Borchardt edu - Woodson, Mission, will host the John Paul the parish hall. Carryouts will be available story! I can type your memoirs from handwritten or and hauling services available. Aquinas alumnus. Hablamos y escribimos Ingles!! ***ANTIQUES WANTED*** cludes dinner and a bingo card. For tick - cates people on the importance of diet II holiday shoppe from 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. beginning at 10 a.m. The cost is $8 for recorded notes. Also provide secretarial services. Call (913) 626- 9500. Call Lupe at (816) 252-3376. Postcards, old photos, military items, trains, ets, call Annette at (913) 371-5063. and nutrition and will be sharing valuable on Nov. 15 and from 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. on adults; $4 for children. Call All About Words at (913) 438-5922. coins, watches jewelry, political buttons, old toys information on eating to stay healthy. This Nov. 16 . There will be a variety of crafts, House painting - Interior and exterior; wallpa - REAL ESTATE and banks, Red Wing crocks, Indian rugs, signs The third annual Hope Benefit, a meeting will benefit newly diagnosed can - jewelry and baked goods available to pur - Christ the King Parish, 5972 S.W. Mountain Movers Inc. - Big or small, we move per removal. 20 years experience. Reasonable I and sterling silverware. Call Chris (913) 642-8269. fundraiser for the Sanctuary of Hope cer patients as well as cancer survivors. chase. 25th St., Topeka, will host a fall festival it all. Insured movers specializing in antiques. Call rates. References. Call Joe at (913) 620-5776. Lake house for sale - Beautiful and private Prayer and Retreat Center, 2601 Ridge For information, call Terri Miller at (913) on Nov. 23. A turkey dinner will be Dennis Higgins, owner, at (913) 285-3399. Lake Kahola, less than 2 hours from the KC area. ENTERTAINMENT Ave., Kansas City, Kan., will be held on 829-1545 or Jean Hinman at (913) 681- Holy Trinity Parish, 9150 Pflumm, served from 11:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. The cost is: Johnson County only - Custom-made overlay Only 10 miles off I-35 at the Emporia exit. This home I Nov. 8. For information, visit the Web site 3348. Lenexa, will host a community health $6 for adults; $3 for children ages 3 - 11; Does you car have dimmed, clouded-looking stained-glass windows or door-side window panels. sleeps 10+ with a 2-car garage, plus a private boat Disc jockey - For your wedding, kolos, night - at: www.hopebenefit.org. and business fair from 8 a.m. - 1 p.m. on children under 3 eat free. There will be a headlight lenses? We will come to your location Adds privacy, beauty and insulation. Call Ed at (913) ramp and dock. Located at the water’s edge on a clubs, corporate parties, teenage celebrations, holi - Catholic Cemeteries will host a Nov. 16 in the parish center. For informa - Christmas craft shop, a silent auction, a and recondition your automobile headlight lenses. 648-0099. Reasonable. quiet cove with great neighbors. Call Cy at (316) day parties, sock-hops, ethnic, birthdays, holiday Veterans Day observance at 2 p.m. on tion, call Jennifer at (913) 599-3682, or drawing, and several carnival games. $77. Call Zep (816) 741-0999. 262-0888. parties, hip-hop/rap, golden oldies. Member of St. 8-9 St. Thomas Aquinas High Nov. 11 at the Veterans Memorial at send an e-mail to her at: jsgryska@everest Professional sprinkler systems - New systems, Therese Parish, KCMO. Call Zepster’s A to Z Party School, 11411 Pflumm Rd., Lenexa, will Resurrection Cemetery, 83rd and Quivira, kc.net. Piano tuning - Touch-up and full chromatic pi - repairs, mods, winterize. Most new systems under VACATION DJ’s at (816) 741-4777. present its fall musical, “The Sound of Lenexa. The brief ceremony will include a ano tuning for residential and business clients in $2500. Family-owned; 30 yrs exp.; free estimates. I Music,” at 7 p.m. on Nov. 8 - 9. Tickets flag-raising, patriotic music, a salute to vet - The Knights of Columbus, Council the KC metro area. Call Bob at (816) 510-3125. Call Mike at (913) 269-1394. Member of St. Michael Bahamas beachfront condo - Enjoy the crystal cost $6 and can be purchased at the erans, a 21-gun salute and the playing of No. 2332, will host a pancakes-and-more the Archangel Parish. clear waters, beachfront pool or the beautiful sun - TO PURCHASE A CLASSIFIED school’s ticket office daily until 4 p.m. For taps. Small flags will be available for breakfast from 8 a.m. - noon on Nov. 16 Misc. Bankruptcy - When debt becomes overwhelm - rises from our newly remodeled condo that sleeps information, contact Kim Harrison at (913) gravesite decorations. For information, call in their hall, located at 11221 Johnson Dr., ing, seek professional help. 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Each additional www.catholiccemeterieskc. org. and crippling debt, will be available to help Custom-kitchen countertops - Laminate tops line is $1.50. Classified ads will also be posted 9 The theater department at Hayden you wade through the paperwork and the Granite, Cambria and Silestone countertops - manufactured and installed within 5 days. Ski cabin in Winter Park, Colo. – 2 BR, 1 BA, on High School, 401 S.W. Gage, Topeka, will system to find help. Women are scheduled online at The Leaven’s Web site: www.the See our new showroom at 5820 Barton, in the heart Competitive prices, dependable work. St. Joseph free ski shuttle route. $110/night. Call (785) 832- present the musical “Godspell” at 2 p.m. 11-13 The Ladies of Charity will for one-hour appointments, and there is of beautiful downtown Shawnee. Call The Top Shop, Parish member. Call The Top Shop, Inc., at (816) 1518. For pictures, visit the Web site at: cabin. leaven.com. on Nov. 9 in the Alumni Hall at the school. host their annual “Shoppin’ at the Ritz” usually at least one follow-up meeting. As Inc., at (816) 898-8685 or (913) 962-5058. 898-8685 or (913) 962-5058. forcadeassociates.com. Tickets cost $8 and are available at the Boutique at the Ritz Charles, 137th and you contact us, your name will be added to door. For information, call the school at Antioch, Overland Park from 5:30 to 9 our waiting list. When we have an opening, (785) 272-5210. p.m. Nov. 11, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Nov. 12, and you will be called to confirm your appoint - 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Nov. 13. ment at the Keeler Women’s Center, 2220 The Altar Society of St. Leo Parish, Central, Kansas City, Kan. To schedule an 1340 First Ave. East, Horton, will host its appointment, call (913) 906-8990. annual chili soup dinner from 11 a.m. - 2 14 Abundant Life Hospice, a p.m. on Nov. 9 in the church center. There Christ-centered and faith-based ministry 20 L Have you been saved? Are Project Rachel is offering weekly sup - will be a cakewalk, a raffle, a silent auc - based in Horton, will host its annual you born again? Come and hear the an - port groups throughout October in the KC tion, door prizes and games for all ages! Celebration of Hope from 6:30 - 10 p.m. swers to these questions and more at a metro area for those hurting from an Carryouts will be available; call (785) 486- on Nov. 14 at the Fisher Center in presentation, sponsored by the St. Agnes abortion. Registration is required. For in - 3311. Hiawatha. For information, call 1 (800) Altar and Rosary Society, entitled “How formation, call Patricia at (913) 621-2199 983-3881, or visit the Web site at: www. to Raise and Keep Our Kids Catholic,” or 1 (888) 246-1504. All calls are strictly The University of Saint Mary fine HospiceGala.org. at 6:45 p.m. on Nov. 20 in the parish cen - confidential. M-F 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sat. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. | Summer Months: Sat. 10 a.m to 3 p.m. 14 COMMENTARY THE LEAVEN • NOVEMBER 7, 2008 THE LEAVEN • NOVEMBER 7, 2008 COMMENTARY 15

¿QUE PASA? — IN HISPANIC MINISTRY MARK MY WORDS

President MOST REVEREND JOSEPH F. NAUMANN Don’t be afraid if your faith is listing Coming soon: the Real E! Network Editor REVEREND MARK GOLDASICH, STL ’m embarrassed to Sales, the patron of journalists, for quick tour around ahead and start up the Evangelization Network, which only features the [email protected] guidance and patience when working Network. On this new network I would “Good News” admit it, but the on The Leaven (and in writing these A the world of cable and I propose that we include the following We could go on, but the point is that Managing Editor other day I visited columns). And, being a moral theolo - Direct TV quickly leads creative programming: we have to get more creative about how ANITA M cSORLEY gian, I have a deep respect for St. 1) A mini series: “Encounters with we can make evangelization as much a [email protected] www.bustedhalo.com. Alphonsus Liguori and his very pas - you to the conclusion that the Risen Lord” part of our daily lives as the world of toral and compassionate approach to there must be a network 2) E! Biographies: featuring testi - TV. In the months to come, I will be Senior Reporter Billed as an “online magazine for the moral issues that people wrestle monies from those who have come to sharing with our readers what has been JOE BOLLIG spiritual seekers in their 20s and 30s,” with. for just about everything. know the risen Lord going on in Hispanic ministry to pro - [email protected] I’m way beyond its intended audience. book memorable is if it makes me The most puzzling saint on my list is 3) Real TV: stories of people who re - mote the Evangelization Network I was visiting this Web site because think. And that’s exactly what Father St. Roch, who has fascinated me since For example, we now have the Food Yes, I think it is time for us to wake ally live out their faith in small commu - among the Spanish speaking. Production Manager someone recommended that I check Jim’s book did for me: It inspired me to my grade school days. A small statue Network, the NFL Network, the Golf up and take the evangelization chal - nities Let me just give you a hint by saying TODD HABIGER out a video there, entitled “The Saints set it aside (once more) and reflect on of Sveti Rok (as he’s known in Network and, of course, who of us lenge a bit more seriously. We talk a 4) Blockbuster Retreats: experiences that we pretty much have numbers 1-6 [email protected] on Halloween,” written and narrated the saints who have influenced my Croatian) sits in a niche on the high al - could ever survive without the E! lot about it and perhaps we even make that offer people an encounter with in place, but we are still trying to orga - by a Jesuit friend of mine, Father Jim own journey of faith. tar at my home parish of St. John the Network? I guess there must be a net - plans to do it, but how many of us take Jesus nize our Cartoon Network. Advertising Representative Martin. The short video summarized So, who made my list? Baptist in Kansas City, Kan. I’m sure work for everyone’s taste and, I hate to seriously the call of Jesus in the 5) A Discipleship Adventure Series: In the meantime, as we say in the JENNIFER SIEBES not only how saints are made in the Well, not surprisingly, St. Mark is at that I once knew why this patron saint Gospel to go to the ends of the earth following people as they do door-to- business, stay tuned for more news [email protected] do this, but I would like to start the ball Catholic Church, but why they contin - the top. I also have a special spot for of those who suffer from the plague rolling for the Catholic Church to start and make disciples through sharing door evangelization in an effort to make from the Evangelization Network, com - ue to be important. (The video is still St. Benedict, as I was ordained a priest had such a place of honor there, but Reporter one more network in the ever-changing his teaching and baptizing people in over their community ing to a station near you. posted on the site; use the search fea - on his feast day of July 11. And round - I’ve long since forgotten and continue KARA HANSEN landscape of TV. I would propose that his name? 6) The Catholic Cartoon Network — ing out the “A list” is St. Francis, since I [email protected] ture there to find it.) to search for an answer. what we need is The Real E! Network, So it seems clear to me that when all featuring Pablo the Evangelizer in his Father Pat Murphy is the archdiocesan animator The video was so delightful, in fact, was taught and influenced in grade Last, but not least, is Blessed Pope and that big E should stand for else fails and we need to get the mes - journey through the archdiocese for the office of Hispanic ministry. Circulation that I gave Father Jim a call to tell him school by the School Sisters of St. John XXIII, whose words opened my Evangelization. sage out there, the best solution is to go 7) CNN: The Catholic News [email protected] so. After chatting with him a while, I Francis of Christ the King; I’m attract - very first column here in July 1989: went to hunt down and dust off a copy ed to his simple lifestyle; and his “See everything, overlook a great deal, Intern of his book, “My Life With the Saints.” hometown of Assisi remains one of my improve a little.” I continue to strive to CEF CENTERED Seán T.D. Kane Its theme is blessedly simple: Father favorite places in all the world to visit. live that ideal. Jim introduces readers to some of the Being Croatian, I couldn’t forget Sts. Who are the saints who have guided Catholic Press Association Award Winner holy people who have been guides for Cyril and Methodius, the brothers who your journey of faith? During this 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, his spiritual journey. He not only gives brought Christianity to the Slavs. I con - month of November, spend time reac - 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, some biographical information on fess to feeling somewhat sorry for quainting yourself with these friends Gaudeamus reminded us what it feels like to make a difference 2006, 2007 those special saints, but describes how them, as well, as they have the misfor - and learning more about them. May and why they touched him. tune of having their feast day on Feb. their prayers and inspiration lead each Archbishop Edward O’Meara Award Winner For me, the mark of a great spiritual 14 and are forever overshadowed by of us in our efforts to attain a halo, atholic education can guests were touched by stories of fami - to working through many of life’s chal - 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, book is not that I read it word-for- someone named Valentine. even if it’s a bit busted. lies helped by the CEF. The scholar - lenges? Probably not, but the word, cover to cover. What makes a I frequently call upon St. Francis de C be the answer we are 2002, 2003 ships provided allowed them to keep Gaudeamus Angels Among Us certain - looking for during chal - their kids in Catholic schools. The ly did! Publication No. (ISSN0194-9799) theme of the evening challenged those The large contingency departed lenging times or in times in the room to remember the lessons with the conclusion of the Gaudeamus Published weekly September through May, excepting the of need! learned from their own Catholic edu - celebration. However, the ending of Friday the week after Thanksgiving, and the Friday after cation and to allow those teachings to this event is really just the beginning. Christmas; biweekly June through August. Address com - Seven-year-old Marcus, the cutest be the focus of their daily lives. Each individual went home taking munications to: The Leaven, 12615 Parallel Pkwy., Kansas kid in the world, from Our Lady of As nine-year-old Sonia, from Holy with them the shared stories, along City, KS 66109. Phone: (913) 721-1570; fax: (913) 721- Unity School in Kansas City, Kan., this year’s “Angels Among Us” Name School in Kansas City, Kan., dis - with the smiles of Marcus and Sonia. 5276; or e-mail at: [email protected]. handed out programs with a smile and honorees Esther White and Ben Zarda, tributed St. Michael the Archangel They left knowing their support was THE GOSPEL TRUTH offered a welcome to those coming to the audience was energized by the medals blessed by Archbishop making a difference in a child’s life. POSTMASTER : Send address changes to The Leaven, Gaudeamus. He struggled to pro - CEF’s mission: to provide scholarships Naumann, did she realize the people in The need for this support is never end - 12615 Parallel Pkwy., Kansas City, KS 66109. For change nounce the word Gaudeamus and for children in need. There is no better the room were all Angels Among Us? ing! of address, provide old and new address and parish. probably didn’t know it was Latin for feeling than helping the less fortunate Did she realize that they were there Catholic education is truly the cen - Subscriptions $18/ year. Periodicals postage paid at Our churches stand as symbols of Christ “Let us rejoice,” but he sure was having who are not able to help themselves. living out their Catholic education ter of our daily lives! Kansas City, KS 66109. As Topeka’s Mater Dei principal their misunderstanding. Far fun. So were the 713 attendees at this dream to help others? Did she realize f we saw a man bury his Andrea Hillebert gave her Archbishop from needing a sign, Jesus’ action is it - year’s Catholic Education Foundation that, just possibly, someone in that Michael Morrisey is the director of the SCRIPTURE READINGS Joseph F. Naumann School of underwear in the self a sign. celebration of Catholic education. room had helped her? Did she realize Catholic Education Foundation. I Through the inspiration provided by Excellence acceptance speech, the that Catholic education is the answer THIRTY-SECOND WEEK OF ORDINARY TIME ground, how would we Jesus answers, “Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up.” Nov. 9 interpret that action? Once again, his challengers misunder - THE DEDICATION OF THE Would we dismiss it sim - stand Jesus. They think that Jesus is INSIDE CATHOLIC CHARITIES LATERAN BASILICA IN ROME speaking about the building in which ply as eccentric behavior? they are standing. Ez 47: 1-2, 8-9, 12; Ps 46: 2-3, 5-6, 8-9; behalf of God. They sometimes also 1 Cor 3: 9c-11, 16-17; Jn 2: 13-22 But instead, Jesus is referring to the Would we suspect it to be engaged in symbolic actions to make a temple as a metaphor for his body, point, to present their message to the Nov. 10 an attempt to hide evi - which will be crucified, and then three people. Jeremiah’s burying his loin - days later rise from the dead. The tem - Extraordinary need yielded an extraordinary response Leo the Great, pope, doctor dence of a crime? What cloth offers us a good example of one Ti 1: 1-9; Ps 24: 1b-4b, 5-6; Lk 17: 1-6 ple is a sign for his body. such symbolic action. That is why this Gospel reading has t was a bad day. The ple were coming to our rescue. A man At Catholic Charities of Northeast would we think? Like the prophets before pulled up with a trunk load of gro - Kansas we have been blessed with Nov. 11 been chosen for this Sunday, the feast I In the case of the prophet him, Jesus also occasionally woman who walked ceries and said he was going back to tremendous support from our local Martin of Tours, bishop THE of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica Jeremiah, none of those ex - engaged in these symbolic ac - his local supermarket for more. A parishes, churches, schools and busi - Ti 2: 1-8, 11-14; Ps 37: 3-4, 18, 23, 29; Lk 17: 7-10 DEDICATION OF in Rome. In celebrating the dedication through our door that planations fit. When he digs THE LATERAN tions as part of his message. of that church, we also celebrate the woman, on a fixed income, came by to nesses, but we are living in extraordi - up the loincloth, he discovers That is what he is doing in Tuesday morning was drop off a check for $500. Residents at nary times. What used to be sufficient Nov. 12 BASILICA IN dedication of our own. The church that “it was rotten, good for Sunday’s Gospel reading, Jn a local senior housing project went is now falling short, and people who Josaphat, bishop, martyr ROME building where we will hear that Gospel battling cancer. nothing. Then the message 2:13-22. door-to-door and delivered a pickup have given in the past are feeling the Ti 3: 1-7; Ps 23: 1b-6; Lk 17: 11-19 Jn 2: 13-22 reading offers us more than a shelter came from the Lord: So also I As Jesus drives the money- from the cold, a place where we can Her head scarf was the telltale sign. load that afternoon. The food kept economic downturn in their own will allow the pride of Judah changers out of the Temple, A single mother with two teenage coming and, by the end of the day, our homes. Nov. 13 meet in comfort, with a sound system to rot, the great pride of Jerusalem. the onlookers challenge him, “What boys, she was managing to get by until pinch of a bad economy. Finally some - shelves were full. It was a good day. It would be easy for us to pull back Frances Xavier Cabrini and lighting. The church building also This wicked people who refuse to obey sign can you show us for doing this?” It the cancer knocked her world side - one was taking notice. The next day I I want to thank Deb and the editors and retreat, to protect what is ours and Phlm 7-20; Ps 146: 7-10; Lk 17: 20-25 serves as a metaphor for the community my words, who walk in the stubborn - is significant that their question in - of believers who gather there. ways. What she needed that day was received a call from The Kansas City at The Kansas City Star for bringing let others fend for themselves. But that ness of their hearts, and follow strange cludes the word “sign.” food for her family. What we gave her Star. Deb Skodack was writing a story this story to the front page. I was confi - is not our Christian call. Extraordinary Nov. 14 And who are they? The body of gods to serve and adore them, shall be In John’s Gospel, the word “sign” was a package of brown-and-serve about food pantries and asked how we dent that once people knew how dire times require an extraordinary re - Friday Christ. We are a sign of Christ in the like this loincloth which is good for usually serves as the equivalent of the rolls, all that was left on our barren were doing. So, I told her: Demand is the situation had become at our local sponse. Whether you have a little or 2 Jn 4-9; Ps 119: 1-2, 10-11, 17-18; Lk 17: 26-37 world. And our church building is a nothing. For as close as the loincloth word “miracle.” It is therefore a word sign of our presence in the local com - food pantry shelves. up — way up — with lots of first-time pantries they would respond generous - you have a lot, please share with those clings to a man’s loins, so had I made that resonates with a great deal of That night, one of the local televi - families coming in for help, and dona - ly. That’s what people do here in the who have nothing. Nov. 15 munity. the whole house of Israel and the meaning. But here, Jesus’ challengers sion stations aired a story about a tions haven’t been able to keep pace. I Midwest; they take care of each other. Albert the Great, bishop, doctor of the church whole house of Judah cling to me” (Jer intend for it to mean a sign of authori - Father Mike Stubbs is pastor of Salvation Army food pantry that was told her that we, too, were out of food. My biggest concern is that the hungry Jan Lewis is the executive director 3 Jn 5-8; Ps 112: 1-6; Lk 18: 1-8 13: 7b-11). ty permitting such violent behavior. St. Francis de Sales Parish in Lansing and has out of food. It seems Catholic Charities The article hit the front page on a will too quickly become yesterday’s of Catholic Charities. The prophets did not only speak on Their question shows the depth of a degree in Scripture from Harvard University. wasn’t the only agency feeling the Friday morning and, by 10 a.m., peo - news. 16 LOCAL NEWS THE LEAVEN • NOVEMBER 7, 2008 Paul was bold and controversial

Continued from page 1 But not so St. Paul. He was a Jew, and proudly so, even He died a martyr’s death though his father had ac - just outside of Rome — proba - quired Roman citizenship for bly by beheading, as was cus - himself and his family. tomary in the execution of To his pagan neighbors, he Roman citizens. was known as Paul. But within No sword, however, could his devoutly Jewish family, he kill his legacy. was Saul. He is more influential now As he was to write later in — 2000 years later — than his various letters, he was of ever. the house of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, circumcised on the eighth day, and named af - Year of St. Paul ter King Saul in the Old Testament. As a teenager, he No other star in the apos - was sent to Jerusalem to study tolic constellation, except per - under the eminent Rabbi haps St. Peter, shines so Gamaliel. brightly as St. Paul. “Tarsus was a great univer - The reasons for this are le - sity city,” said Joe Durepos, gion. author of “A Still More He was a writer. We know Excellent Way: How St. Paul more about St. Paul than we Points Us to Jesus.” do about any other apostle, “It seems that St. Paul had a mainly because of his writ - marvelous education — the ings. Authorship of nearly equivalent of a prep-school half the New Testament — 13 education today,” he contin - out of 27 books — is attrib - ued. “It was very different uted to him. These works re - from St. Peter and the other veal St. Paul to be an indefati - apostles. . . . Certainly he had gable evangelist, talented a great understanding of the writer, and first-class theolo - Jewish Scriptures, and proba - gian. bly a tremendously refined He was a traveler. St. Paul Greco-Roman sensibility, with traveled approximately an understanding of Greek 10,000 miles by land and sea philosophy of the time.” when sailing the In short, St. Paul was con - Mediterranean was only nected: merchant class, Roman slightly more hazardous than citizenship, good education . . . walking the bandit-infested and more. roadways. We can trace the He was also hard-core, tes - route of his missionary travels tifying once, “I am a Pharisee, still today by the churches he the son of a Pharisee” (Acts planted. 23:6). He was bold and controver - In fact, he was harder than sial. He was just as willing to hard-core. shake his finger at his fellow “The Pharisees [move - apostles as at unrepentant ment] had two schools of Jews and Gentiles. St. Paul thought: one was Hillel and even scolded St. Peter on at the other was Shammai,” said least one occasion. He seemed Father Stubbs. “[Biblical to pack trouble in his suitcase, scholar N.T.] Wright believes because arguments broke out that Saul of Tarsus belonged wherever he went — some - to the school of Shammai. It times riots. was more hard line.” He was a visionary. He saw His zeal bordered on the fa - the hunger for Christ’s mes - natical, so much so that he CNS photo by Nancy Wiechec joined a lynch mob. Scripture sage in the eyes of the This August 2000 file photo shows the statue of St. Paul at the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls in Rome. Paul’s records (Acts 7:58) that the Gentiles. He expanded writings are among the most studied works by biblical scholars — quite fitting since nearly half of the New Testament mob that stoned a young Christianity’s horizons physi - is attributed to him. cally, theologically and cultur - Christian deacon named ally by smashing through the present to the Lord, believed Empire, and a troublesome “[St. Paul] was a tentmaker Stephen — the first martyr — 1st-century Jewish traditions Paul, so be it. In fact, bring it one at that. by trade, and that is fairly sig - piled their cloaks at the feet of and sensibilities that barred on. St. Paul and his family, like nificant,” explained Father a young man named Saul. the way for Gentile converts. The church has set aside an other Jews of their time, were Michael Stubbs, a Scripture Paul may have even been Thanks to his missionary zeal, entire year — from June 28, part of the Diaspora — those scholar and pastor of St. there in an official capacity, Christianity exploded out of 2008, to June 29, 2009 — to living in countries where Jews Francis de Sales Parish in acting as a witness on behalf its Jewish cradle and blazed honor St. Paul. Special obser - expelled from their homeland Lansing. “He would have as - of the Sanhedrin, a religious across the Greco-Roman vances are taking place in eventually settled. sociated with other tentmak - supreme court for Jews. world like a wildfire. Rome and throughout the Over time many Jews fil - ers, and a lot of them were But being a witness wasn’t He was a convert. St. Paul’s world. tered back to Roman not Jewish. They were enough. In his burning zeal, dramatic “road to Damascus Somehow, a year doesn’t Palestine, but many others Gentiles.” he sought and received per - experience” took him from be - seem like enough. didn’t, and they formed com - “He may have belonged to a mission from the chief priests ing the foremost persecutor of munities scattered across the trade guild," Father Stubbs con - of the Sanhedrin to hunt Christianity to its foremost ancient Middle East and tinued. “In the Mediterranean down members of a new missionary. This incredible re - Paul: A foot in Mediterranean basin. In a cul - world, [guild members] sup - heresy —those who believed versal continues to fascinate tural sense, these were Jewish ported one another. Often, the that Jesus of Nazareth was the believers and nonbelievers each world islands in a pagan sea. trade guilds served as a kind Messiah. alike. According to his own words of mutual aid society, so if one This was the job that put He was a martyr. Giving all St. Paul grew up in a Jewish St. Paul was born in Tarsus, a of the members became sick, him on the road to Damascus to Christ meant just that to family, but not in the Jewish costal town in what today is the others would take care of — and straight into a remark - Paul — even to his last breath. homeland. southeast Turkey. In his day, him.” able encounter. By the end, he was as eager to By the time of his birth, Tarsus was the capital of the Some of the trade guilds An encounter that would be rid of all that separated him Israel had long since ceased to province of Cilicia, with a port featured a religious dimension change his life. from Christ as the authorities be an independent kingdom. and shipyard. Several impor - as well as an economic one, af - An encounter that would were to be rid of him. If he had It was merely another tant trade routes passed filiating themselves with a pa - change the world. to be absent in the body to be province of the Roman through Tarsus. tron god.